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Mondays in the Sun

Los lunes al sol

Spain, France, Italy

2002

113 Min
Color
1.85:1
Spanish
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DIR Fernando León de Aranoa

PROD Elías Querejeta, Jaume Roures

SCR Fernando León de Aranoa, Ignacio del Moral

DP Alfredo F. Mayo

CAST Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, José Ángel Egido, Nieve de Medina, Enrique Villén, Celso Bugallo, Joaquín Climent, Aida Folch, Serge Riaboukine, Laura Domínguez, Pepo Oliva, Fernando Tejero

ED Nacho Ruiz Capillas

PROD DES Julio Esteban

MUSIC Lucio Godoy

San Sebastián (Competition): Golden Seashell, FIPRESCI Prize, SIGNIS Award, Sundance (World Cinema), Rotterdam (Main Programme), Tribeca (Showcase), Karlovy Vary (Horizons - Awarded Films), Transilvania (3x3 - Fernando Léon de Aranoa)

Synopsis

Fernando Leon de Aranoa affirms his status as one of the most gifted of a new generation of Spanish directors with the award-winning Mondays in the Sun. Cut from familiar cloth, but distinctive and unconventional in its execution, Leon de Aranoa’s film draws on a long line of European social melodramas in its examination of the trials of the modern-day Spanish working class. This is a film that departs from the archetypical working-class hero to paint a riveting and human depiction of men faced with a society which no longer values nor needs their labors.

Javier Bardem, as Santa, once again demonstrates why he should be considered in the top echelon of the world’s great actors with a multidimensional performance that exudes the complex array of feelings that unemployment and idleness bestow upon a man. When the shipyard in which Santa has worked his whole life closes, he and his ex-workmates struggle to overcome their increasing sense of desperation.

Working with an excellent ensemble cast and top-notch below-the-line talent, Mondays in the Sun speaks with a softly modulated voice that transcends the clichés of political accusations to leave us with a potent grasp of the real implications of globalization and economic progress. —Geoffrey Gilmore

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Fernando León de Aranoa

Fernando León de Aranoa was born in Madrid in may 1968 and has a degree in image Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. She started working as a screenwriter in television series such as turn on its own initiative, in programmes as the Un, dos, tres… responda otra vez and writing for comics Tuesday and thirteen.

His behind the camera debut in 1994 with the short film “sirens”, which was awarded in several national festivals.His first feature film was “family” (1996) which as usual his work also wrote the screenplay. In recognition of this film was awarded the Goya Award for best novel Director, as well as Valladolid SEMINCI audience award and the Fipresci award. The play was later adapted into the scene represented in several countries and stage

In 1998 he wrote and directed “neighborhood”, portrait of the lives of three young teens in a slum. Thanks to this job gets Awards Goya Best Director and best original screenplay. The film was presented in the official… read more

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Fernando Nikolić

31Jan12

Mas actual que nunca

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marcorenton

6Jul11

Sad and depressing. But thanks to the strong acting of a charismatic Javier Bardem a very fine film with room for humor.

Omar Fabricio

4Jun11

Magnifico filme acerca de la vida despues de la edad productiva

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